February 8th 04, 04:23 PM
http://puregold.aquaria.net/pg/care/care1.htm#essentials
too little water
what are your water quality parameters, ammonia, nitrites, nitrates and pH?
get nitrate test and keep nitrates at or under 20 ppm
fasting is only way to treat overfeeding. be very, very careful with any fish shows
floaty tendency. feed 1 pellet and 2 grains of cooked rice or 1/2 COOKED shelled pea
as a chaser.
peas are not digested, they act as a laxative, just like cooked rice does. so they
dont get any nutrition from it.
best is WET cooked seafood, like chopped shrimp, that fake crab meat, etc. and be
sure to soak any pellet food but especially anything that floats. is best to get
sinking food and soak that a bit.
increase temp to 78oF that helps with floatiness. up to 84oF in fact. and a bit of
epsom salts if the fish is floating. 1 crystal in 1/2 cooked pea
Ingrid
"Wessel Dirksen" > wrote:
> small fantail in a small 15L aquarium with heating and
>a small hanging Eheim filter. He developed the swim bladder disease and I
>research it and found out that I had fed him too much pellet food but
>otherwise I do it right with water replacement etc. I treated him a week
>with some antibacterial stuff and fasted him for awhile and it went away
>(relief) Now if I feed him even 2 pre-soaked pellets twice a day for a few
>days het gets it again but only temporaily. He does good on peas. Some
>questions.
>
>1 Is a consistant feeding of peas a balanced diet or should I do this once
>in a while?
>2 Is there a better over the counter food to combat this.
>3 Do you agree with the eye volume quantity feeding advice split up twice a
>day?
>4 Should I cook the peas or is "raw and thaw" the way to go?
>Wessel
>
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too little water
what are your water quality parameters, ammonia, nitrites, nitrates and pH?
get nitrate test and keep nitrates at or under 20 ppm
fasting is only way to treat overfeeding. be very, very careful with any fish shows
floaty tendency. feed 1 pellet and 2 grains of cooked rice or 1/2 COOKED shelled pea
as a chaser.
peas are not digested, they act as a laxative, just like cooked rice does. so they
dont get any nutrition from it.
best is WET cooked seafood, like chopped shrimp, that fake crab meat, etc. and be
sure to soak any pellet food but especially anything that floats. is best to get
sinking food and soak that a bit.
increase temp to 78oF that helps with floatiness. up to 84oF in fact. and a bit of
epsom salts if the fish is floating. 1 crystal in 1/2 cooked pea
Ingrid
"Wessel Dirksen" > wrote:
> small fantail in a small 15L aquarium with heating and
>a small hanging Eheim filter. He developed the swim bladder disease and I
>research it and found out that I had fed him too much pellet food but
>otherwise I do it right with water replacement etc. I treated him a week
>with some antibacterial stuff and fasted him for awhile and it went away
>(relief) Now if I feed him even 2 pre-soaked pellets twice a day for a few
>days het gets it again but only temporaily. He does good on peas. Some
>questions.
>
>1 Is a consistant feeding of peas a balanced diet or should I do this once
>in a while?
>2 Is there a better over the counter food to combat this.
>3 Do you agree with the eye volume quantity feeding advice split up twice a
>day?
>4 Should I cook the peas or is "raw and thaw" the way to go?
>Wessel
>
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
List Manager: Puregold Goldfish List
http://puregold.aquaria.net/
www.drsolo.com
Solve the problem, dont waste energy finding who's to blame
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Unfortunately, I receive no money, gifts, discounts or other
compensation for all the damn work I do, nor for any of the
endorsements or recommendations I make.